Food For Thought?

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How to say Bon Appétit in 23 other Languages

Food for thought:
Probably all languages have formulaic utterances which are said on certain occasions, e.g. French 'bon appétit!' – "good appetite" said to guests at the dinner table, or French 'bon voyage' – "good trip", said to travellers. The fact that some of these have been borrowed into English from other languages, like French, is indicative of the fact that English does not have ready-made concise equivalent formulas for these occasions.

Commonly used substitutes in English are: 'Enjoy your Meal!' or perhaps the host saying: 'Do start' or 'Don't wait'.

Here are some some equivalents in other Languages:

Catalan	Bon profit!
Croatian	Dobar tek!
Danish	Velbekomme!
Dutch	Smakelijk eten!
French	Bon appétit!
German	Guten appetit!
Hebrew (transliterated)	Bete'avon!
Hungarian	Jó étvágyat!
Italian	Buon appetito!
Japanese (transliterated)	Itadakimas!
Korean (transliterated)	Mani deuseyo!
Lithuanian	Gero apetito!/Skanaus!
Modern Greek (transliterated)	Kale orexe!
Norwegian	Vær så god!
Persian	Noosh-e jan!
Polish	Smacznego!
Portuguese	Bom apetite!
Russian (transliterated)	Priiatnogo appetita!
Serbian (transliterated)	Prijatno!
Spanish	¡Buen provecho!
Swedish	Smaklig måltid!
Turkish	Afiyet olson!
Yiddish (transliterated)	Est gezunterhayt!

Source :-
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